the nra, we know, spent at least $700,000 on outside money. that's some of the only money that we can identify where it came from. they spend $40 million total. we, in part, made it, issue that it's the oil companies that are coming in and wall street coming in against me. and that's not necessarily heard by the voters that want to reach, the low-information voters are likely not going to vote on that issue but that's tactally what you do in a campaign but when a number of democrats say -- we beat the big much this year it's not that big a deal. >> thank god. >> and thank god for bill burton but thank god, too, we had better candidate the around the country, look at north dakota and montana and missouri and indiana, we had better candidates. that's one of the reasons we wop. we had a better presidential candidate to be sure. that's one of the reasons we one and it was sort of the tiles. we had the auto rescue in the industrial midwest and what we had done withlily ledbetter, all of those issues. so i think -- >> you think there's a little come